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Operated by Country Bus Rallies P162_8.12.2019 On 17 March 2001, the route was converted to low floor single deck operation using Pointer 2 bodied SLFs and was withdrawn between Chislehurst and Please note - this bus will operate today via Bromley North Station in Petts Wood, this section replaced by revised Route 273. both directions to connect with vintage operating on route 227 On 20 October 2001, the route was extended from Chislehurst to Eltham Station via Belmont Lane - Imperial Way - Molescroft - Domonic Drive - Edgebury - Green Lane - Southwood Road - DT 29 - G29 TGW Avery Hill Road - Bexley Road - Eltham High Street. Dennis Dart On 18 March 2006, the route passed to Kent Thameside operating from their Dartford (DT) This historic vehicle is not garage with 2 bodied Dennis Dart SLFs introduced and the loop working via wheelchair-accessible Bromley North Station was withdrawn in both directions. On 19 March 2011, the route passed to Metrobus operating from their (MB) garage with brand new Enviro 200 Darts introduced. ... continued from front page vehicles purchased by Transport, although Welcome aboard ! others were subsequently ordered with differing body styles. Later batches were designed with lower floors You are passenger number today. with provision for wheelchairs to improve access. Today there are a number of restored older buses These Carlyle bodied vehicles were quite revolutionary running free on routes to and from Bromley Town in their day, offering a lower boarding step, than other Centre, organised by Country Bus Rallies with the midi-bus types, and were seen as rather stylish by permission of TfL (routes 94, 162 and 227). passengers with their carpeted ceilings and interiors The vehicle you are travelling on today entered service plus their distinctive curved front To learn more about in 1990 operating on the ‘R’ routes in Orpington, part windscreens. A few were even delivered visit of the ROUNDABOUT network of services. the with seats, such as this example. This bus transferred to Bromley Bus Garage in 1991 London Omnibus Their introduction was so successful and, with its sister Traction Society that passenger numbers outgrew these vehicles, would have website: little vehicles and larger and larger buses been common on www.lots.org.uk were ordered, eventually resembling the routes in Bromley modern vehicles that we see on route 162 today. Many during the early 1990s. of the routes we take for granted today, such as the 336 in Bromley, owe their existence to these types of Bus patronage had vehicles. been falling in the 1980s and to try and This vehicle was externally restored at the beginning reverse this decline, of 2018 which included a new roof being fitted. It London Transport introduced smaller vehicles, running had undergone mechanical restoration the previous at higher frequencies in an attempt to attract more year. Attention will now turn to restoring the interior, passengers. The vehicles also had the advantage in returning the maroon moquette that it would have had that being smaller and more manoeuvrable they could from new in its ROUNDABOUT days. penetrate deeper into residential areas than the larger traditional vehicles. Today’s special operations have been organised by The Dennis Dart vehicle that you are travelling on Country Bus Rallies with the agreement of Transport for London. today (DT29) was one of a fleet of 168 Carlyle bodied Buses are maintained and operated at their owners’ expense and no fares are charged. Continued on back page ...